JB_024_324.xml

Title: [1822 Aug. 20 Tripoli Securities against Misrule]

Description: 1822 Aug. 20 Tripoli Securities against Misrule ?.5. IV. Secret Confinement

IV. Security against Oppressive Confinement

II. Securities in detail in favour of individuals.

IV. Security against secret confinement: for the protection of to the persons of

individuals against oppression, by persons in authority, [without or even with

the knowledge of the Sovereign.]

1. Whensoever, on the alledged ground of its being a purposes /furtherance/ of

justice, the person of any man is put under confinement, information thereof

shall be given in the most public manner to the end that all persons taking an

interest in his welfare may have it in their power to take lawful measures for

securing him against injustice.

To this end no person shall be confined in any habitation other than a prison or

other habitation

2 To this end, all habitations /the names /name/ and situation of every

habitation/ designed by authority to be used as places of confinement whether on

the score of delinquency or insanity shall be entered in an appropriate register

one copy whereof /exemplar of/ shall be kept in the metropolis at /in/ the

Office of the Chief Judicatory; and of this exemplar a copy shall be kept at the

Office of every other Judicatory

3. On the commitment of an individual to any such place of confinement, entry of

such commitment shall be made on a register to be therein kept for that purpose,

mentioning 1 the name by which, in his own confession /declaration/ or otherwise

such individual is distinguished, 2 the person or persons by whose authority he

is so committed /hands he has been brought the person by whose authority he has

been brought/, 3 the cause for which he is so committed /has been brought/ 4 the

time for which he is so committed: 5 and the evidence on which such commitment

has been grounded: a sufficient description by name and otherwise of every

person on whose testimony the commitment has had place being added, 6 as also

the cause for which he has been committed.

Add obligation of notification of habitations employed as temporary prisons

through necessity.

JB_024_337.xml

Title: [1822 Sept. 22 Tripoli. Securities against]

Description: 1822 Sept. 22 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule 3. Disappearance

At the request of any person so applying /On the occasion of any such

application/ the Judge shall immediately deliver to him or suffer him to take or

to cause to be taken a copy thereof signed by the said Judge: copies in any

number being taken of such copy, the Judge shall without delay cause examination

thereof to be made, and as soon as they have respectively been found or made

correct shall in like manner authenticate them by his signature, to the end that

by the applicant transmission thereof be made to all such judicatories and

Mosques as the applicant shall be desirous of sending them to: whereupon

immediately upon the receipt of each such copy, the Iman of the Mosque shall

make publication thereof by reading the contents to the faithful in full

congregation assembled:

In every judicatory in the office of which any such copy shall have /has/ been

received, the presiding Judge shall cause it to be kept in the archives, and

having first made notification thereof in the promptest and at the same time in

the most public manner that the circumstances of time and place admitt of.

Attached to such record of disappearance shall be an invitation to all persons

having knowledge of any facts, tending to a /the/ discovery of the authors of

the injury or to the causing it to cease, if the party be alive to the causing

it to cease, to repair to any judicatory or to any Mosque at their choice, there

to testify what they know: which done it shall be incumbent upon the President

of the Judicatory or the Iman of the Mosque shall upon their responsibility use

such means as their situation admitts of to the forwarding to the proper

Judicatory the information so obtained.

JB_024_341.xml

Title: [1822 Sept. 26 Tripoli. Securities against]

Description: 1822 Sept. 26 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule ?.8. VII. Extortion of

service

Where the nature of the service is such as to require that it be exacted of

individuals in an indeterminate number at the same time, no such act of

acknowledgment need be given to any /each/ one of them.

But in this case let a general statement of the matter be committed to writing

by the proper functionary, and deposited either at the Mosque or the Judicatory

within the District of which the matter happened, or both as the case may

require

In this case if it should happen to /that/ any individual if so it be that this

or that individual has on the occasion of his performance of such service,

received any material damage in body or goods, let note with sufficient

attestations be taken thereof, to the end that he may receive compensation in a

pecuniary shape at the hands of government

So if so it be that by the magnitude of hazard to body or goods, or by the

success or energy of his exertions it has happened to this or that individual to

distinguish /signalize/ himself in an eminent degree, let note thereof be taken

and a duly attested copy thereof be delivered to him. In this case, if the

degree of merit so manifested be sufficient let an entry be made in an

appropriate Register to be kept in every Mosque and in every Judicatory. It may

be stiled The Register of Merit: or the Register of extraordinarily meritorious

public service